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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FARE FOR A GYPSY HEART, by LOUIS RAGG
First Line: The heart of me is like a railroad bum
Last Line: Where cups of tea are prelude to a lunch.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars
First Line: The heart of me is like a railroad bum
Last Line: Where cups of tea are prelude to a lunch.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars
The heart of me is like a railroad bum
Who wears a yellow vest and has a pack
Of useless things in red bandana wrapped
To carry on a limb for beggar's luck.
His shoes are overbig; his ancient hat,
Thru many rains, is shapeless as a sponge;
The shirt front where his buttons came undone
Is looped with nails he found along the track.
He planned a solid home for living, once --
But he of clumsy hands was so unapt
That walls and rafter timbers all collapsed
Into a path of ties where life is much
Of dodging dogs and finding doors to rap
Where cups of tea are prelude to a lunch.
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